Victory Manual

South Korean President-elect states he will not demand apology from Japan over historical confrontations. Former South Korean Presidents have been very vocal over demands for official apologies from Japan. Lee Myeong Bak is looking to change this, and I think he’s doing so from the stance of a businessman. He was elected [...]

Among the non-Asian foreign community living in an East Asian country, there are heaps of remonstrations touching on discrimination. Whether it’s over the perceived notion that the media focuses its fire on foreign criminal activity, or the claim that “4 out of 5 landlords will not rent to a foreigner,” there is an abundance [...]

- One man’s terror is another man’s coalition of the willing.
- I would be pretty terrified of seeing any units of foreign militants armed with high-powered weaponry in my country. Wouldn’t you?
- You know what I like? Blogs where the author writes very negatively about some body of people, whether it’s a specific [...]

The pile of wood chippings is running thin; anymore, it’s not enough to fuel the fire.
I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to keep up with this bl-
Hey, an Oreo! Sweet.
What was I saying? Oh, right. It was kind of fun keeping up on this blog, but I’ve lost the [...]

For those of you who wanted some pictures, here’s a bunch. Plus, a bonus movie at the end. For free!
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Here I am, such a small bundle of joy. (What happened?!) You can’t tell from the photo as much, but Lani looks so much like me.

This is where [...]

Our Korean class went on a field trip down to the southern-side of the island today, and I brought my camera. Here are three shots.

I wonder what sort of ratio exists between expat-bloggers:expat-non-bloggers and non-expat-bloggers:non-expat-non-bloggers.
Nearly every foreigner I know who lives in Japan or South Korea has a blog of some sort. I think the ratio of bloggers is much higher for expats than for non-expats. (What I refer to as ‘inpats’, because the dictionary only lists [...]

It’s been exactly one month since I last posted Lani stuff, and after getting a guilt trip over it, I finally found the time to throw a couple of clips together this evening after I attended 3 hours of class in the morning and then cleaned the whole hotel by myself since our cleaning lady [...]

I went out with some classmates this weekend to a local beach. It was excellent. Best beach I’ve been to in my life. The pictures really don’t do the scene justice.
Here we are, the crew, on our way out to the water. I’m on the right.

I have no idea what’s going [...]

I finally had the chance (the first chance in two months, since arriving on the island) to get out and explore the surrounding area. I made it as far as Iho Beach, which is the closest beach to our place. The weather was really gloomy, but I wanted to take some pictures anyway. [...]